THE PRAIRIE DOGS THAT WEREN T THERE

Mountain States Legal Foundation ^ | April 1, 2002 | William Perry Pendley

[PatrioticAmerican]

Nice rigs! I don't think I have seen such artwork on sticks.

[Madame Dufarge]

Instead, the FWS relied on its employees’ testimony that the elusive prairie dogs whose presence on Drake’s land was never filmed and whose habitat there was never found, had disappeared. They must be dead, killed by Drake’s actions.

And did they notice there were no dinosaurs or Venusians there either?

This guy could be a serial killer!

[B4Ranch]

The artwork isn't too expensive. $300 and up.

[mad_as_he$$]

Thanks for the link. I was looking for a new activity for the summer get together. DuPont plug fishing, cow tipping and piano hurling were getting a little old!

[tacticalogic]

Welcome. Usually when I tell people about it they think I'm making it all up. But that's just because they know me....

[Navy Patriot]

i personally think #223 is more inspirational.

For singing toward prairie dogs I prefer hymn 22-250.

[glock rocks]

i can see your point. i guess i kind of like to sing to the masses
but there is value in selectively redeeming individuals, and it appears we
are all singing from the same hymnal here ;-)

[Issaquahking]

Wonder if this guy standing in the pic would look better through a scope?

[PatrioticAmerican]

Not bad. It looks to be excellent work. Who does it?

[tacticalogic]

Wonder if this guy standing in the pic would look better through a scope?

Briefly.....

[ninenot]

First off, the ALJ is not a member of the court system--they are merely bureaucrats. (In Wisconsin, state ALJ's don't even have to have a law degree in the unemployment compensation bureau.) However, I quibble only to clarify.

It has been perfectly clear for years that the FWS and all other Interior bureaucrats think the West is merely there as a scenic attraction, not as a habitat for humanity. The fact that they will lie, cheat, and steal to preserve the West from people (for God-only-knows-what in the future) is not too surprising--their Commander-in-Chief until 15 months ago was an excellent example of achievement through chicanery or worse.

Why should they do any different from the model afforded by Clinton? He made it to the Presidency, after all....

[FreeInWV]

Please post directions to the dogtown. If I can't make it there these guys will. They have a slight prairie dog obsession. They got the fever!

Here is a pic of a little toy of mine. Note the Pdog target.

[WhiteyAppleseed]

There is legislation in the House (HR2829 & HR 3705) that is aimed at reforming the Endangered Species Act. The House "Resource" Committee held some hearings on the legislation--February in Nebraska, and March in D.C. There is quite a bit of info there in the record. The legislation seeks to put science into the enforcement of the ESA and take the political science out of it. There is even mention of a "Science Court," an interesting and frightening concept. It would be nice if we could generate enough interest in reforming the ESA.

[VOA]

They must be dead, killed by Drake’s actions.
Remarkably, the ALJ upheld Drake’s fine because these were federal employees who had
no reason to lie and must, therefore, be believed. Drake appealed the decision.

Miscarriage of justice, even if there might have been one or two prairie dogs on his property.

In the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma, there was a sizeable prarie dog community.
My friends and I would often stop by to see the sociable little creatures when
on our way to hike the Wichita Mountains and to see the buffalo and long-horn cattle
in the area.

One year an exceptionally heavy rainstorm simply destoyed the settlement of
prarie dogs. I don't think it even had recoverd a year or two later.

I guess that being an Okies I can paraphrase Will Rogers:

"Stuff happens to prarie dogs."
And it ain't because of human actions!!!

[SEVENCROSS]

The prarie dog is not currently on the list of candidate species because there are other species that are presently in greater need of listing.

The prarie dog is "warranted but precluded" which means that there is enough scientific info. available for the Service to list the species, but that there are other species that are in greater jeopardy and in need of the protections of the ESA that need to be listed first.

[SierraWasp]

"another example of how liberal enviro-activists are losing their credibility."

Well sure, but, when are they gonna lose their unbridled power over people's lives?

[mafree]

The choir is in da house.

[B4Ranch]

Come on out to Nevada and we'll spend a week poppin' desert dogs.

[B4Ranch]

If you are serious, we are having the Reno NRA Show in a couple of weeks and I can get the numbers for you.

[philman_36]

Since 1937, and the Roosevelt interpretation of the Commerce Clause, all that you own that could conceivably be bought, sold or traded, and anything you do that could result in money, goods, or services changing hands, or cause money, goods, or services to not change hands that might otherwise have is a privilege afforded by the federal government, that can be revoked at any time.
And that privilege is granted through a license which everyone is required to have before they can perform said privelege, according to popular thinking.
"We're going fishing."
"No. Not without my permission (license)."
"But..."
"No!"

Who's your Daddy?